Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.